Financial & Inventory Controller

RecruitMyMom; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 614,000 - 1,004,000; Full time

Job summary

RecruitMyMom is seeking an experienced Financial Controller in Cape Town to own inventory integrity and stock-related processes. You will drive annual inventory valuation, cost-of-sales reporting, and strong controls across warehouse, procurement, operations, and finance functions.

Based in Cape Town with daily in-office presence and a flexible 1-day hybrid option after six months, you will move between ERP data, financial systems, and warehouse operations to establish robust stock controls and

Qualifications

• 4 to 7 years of finance or inventory-control experience.
• Demonstrable experience investigating inventory discrepancies.
• Strong ERP and accounting system experience.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience with imports and landed-cost calculations.
• Experience working directly with warehouse teams.
• Experience with ERP, inventory, and accounting platforms such as SAP, NetSuite, Sage, Microsoft Dynamics, or Cin7.

Responsibilities

• Reconcile physical inventory to system records; investigate variances to SKU and transaction level to implement root-cause corrective actions.
• Develop, manage, and oversee a structured cycle-counting programme, random stock counts, and periodic full warehouse stocktakes.
• Review stock movements across supplier receipts, customer dispatches, third-party fulfilment transfers, warehouse transfers, customer/supplier returns, damaged stock, samples, and write-offs.
• Reconcile goods-received processes, matching supplier deliveries against purchase orders and verifying landed cost allocations, import-related costs, and weighted average costs.
• Manage inventory valuation and cost-of-sales reconciliations, investigating abnormal gross margins by SKU, customer, channel, or product category.
• Reconcile e-commerce, marketplace, third-party fulfilment, and stock-in-transit records against internal inventory data.
• Maintain financial controls for returned, damaged, defective, obsolete, and quarantined stock, ensuring appropriate authorization for write-offs.
• Support broader finance functions including month-end reporting, balance-sheet reconciliations, inventory control accounts, accruals, provisions, and annual audit support.
• Spend time within physical warehouse operations to observe receiving, picking, dispatch, and returns processes to identify and resolve process weaknesses.
• Create standard operating procedures (SOPs), establish variance thresholds, and produce regular management reports on inventory accuracy, valuation, ageing, and stock write-offs.

Skills

Advanced Microsoft Excel

ERP systems

Inventory accounting

Tools

SAP

NetSuite

Sage

Microsoft Dynamics

Cin7

Job description

Cape Town, South Africa | Posted on 21/08/2026

• Location Type Hybrid (Part office, Part remote)
• Job Type Permanent
• Remuneration Term Per Month
• Date Opened 21/08/2026
• State/Province Western Cape
• City/Town Cape Town
• Country South Africa

Job Description

An established distribution company is looking for an experienced Financial Controller to join their team. Taking ownership of the financial integrity of inventory and stock-related processes, this position drives inventory accuracy and operational control. Working directly across warehouse, procurement, operations, and finance functions, the role ensures physical inventory aligns precisely with system records, resolving variances down to transaction and SKU level.

Based in Cape Town, this in-office role offers flexibility on daily working times alongside a 1-day hybrid working option . Moving between financial systems, ERP data, and physical warehouse operations, the position is central to establishing robust stock controls, maintaining correct inventory valuations, and delivering accurate cost-of-sales and gross-margin reporting .

Key Responsibilities

Reconcile physical inventory to system records on an ongoing basis, investigating variances down to SKU and transaction level to implement root-cause corrective actions .

Develop, manage, and oversee a structured cycle-counting programme, random stock counts, and periodic full warehouse stocktakes .

Review stock movements across supplier receipts, customer dispatches, third-party fulfilment transfers, warehouse transfers, customer/supplier returns, damaged stock, samples, and write-offs .

Reconcile goods-received processes, matching supplier deliveries against purchase orders and verifying landed cost allocations, import-related costs, and weighted average costs .

Manage inventory valuation and cost-of-sales reconciliations, investigating abnormal gross margins by SKU, customer, channel, or product category .

Reconcile e-commerce, marketplace, third-party fulfilment, and stock-in-transit records against internal inventory data .

Maintain financial controls for returned, damaged, defective, obsolete, and quarantined stock, ensuring appropriate authorization for write-offs .

Support broader finance functions including month-end reporting, balance-sheet reconciliations, inventory control accounts, accruals, provisions, and annual audit support .

Spend time within physical warehouse operations to observe receiving, picking, dispatch, and returns processes to identify and resolve process weaknesses .

Create standard operating procedures (SOPs), establish variance thresholds, and produce regular management reports on inventory accuracy, valuation, ageing, and stock write-offs .

Requirements

4 to 7 years of relevant finance or inventory-control experience .

Demonstrable experience investigating inventory discrepancies within a business carrying significant physical inventory .

Strong understanding of inventory accounting, cost-of-sales, and reconciling inventory sub-ledgers to the general ledger .

Advanced Microsoft Excel skills .

Strong ERP and accounting system experience.

Experience in retail, FMCG, e-commerce, wholesale, distribution, importing, or manufacturing .

Experience with imports and landed-cost calculations .

Experience working directly with warehouse teams .

Experience with ERP, inventory, and accounting platforms such as SAP, NetSuite, Sage, Microsoft Dynamics, or Cin7.

Growing company

Flexibility on start times, one day hybrid option after first 6 months.